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Stapleton of Wighill, Yorkshire

Later "Stapylton".

• References:
  • BEAUMONT in [Burkes Peerage]

• Things to do:
  • There are some Stapleton tombs at All Saints Church, Wighill, Yorkshire. See photos.

Sir Gilbert Stapleton.
There is some confusion over his parentage.
He had issue:

Sir Bryan Stapleton, K.G. (and here),
of Carlton, North Yorkshire,
mar Alice St. Philibert [dau of Sir John St. Philibert],
died 1394,
had issue:

Sir Miles Stapleton, Kt,
mar Johanneth Ufflete [dau of Sir Gerard Ufflete by Lora de Furnivale],
apparently acquired Wighill, W of York, North Yorkshire, by marriage,
died 1400,
had issue:

Sir John Stapleton, Kt,
mar Margaret Norton [dau of Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers, Yorkshire],
he died 1455,
had issue:

Sir William Stapleton, Kt,
mar 1stly to Margaret Pickering,
had issue by 1st wife:

Sir Bryan Stapleton, Kt, of Wighill,
mar Joan Thirkeld,
had issue:

Sir Christopher Stapleton,
of Wighill,
mar 1stly to Alice Aske,
had issue by 1st wife:

Sir Robert Stapleton,
of Wighill,
mar Elizabeth Mallory,
he died 1557,
had issue:

1. Sir Robert Stapleton, born 1547.
   High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1581 (23rd Elizabeth).
   He mar 1stly to Catherine Constable [descendant of Edward III].
   He had issue by 1st wife:

   
   

   1. Henry Stapleton,
      of Wighill, Yorkshire.

   
   Sir Robert mar 2ndly to Olive Sherrington.
   He was bur 3 Oct 1606 at Wighill.
   He had issue by 2nd wife:

   1. Bryan Stapylton,
      of Myton, Yorkshire,
      had issue:
      1. Sir Henry Stapylton, 1st Baronet,
         of Myton,
         cr 1660.

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• Stapleton and p.2 and p.3 and p.4 by Peter Barns-Graham

• Sir Bryan Stapleton, K.G., is also ancestor of:
  • Sir Robert Stapleton (or Stapylton) (see here),
    dramatist and translator, died 1669.

• Carlton Towers, North Yorkshire.
  • The site was a Stapleton seat since 14th century.
  • The current house was built 1614.
  • Seat of Stapleton, Baron Beaumont.